Microsoft 365 Copilot Received These New Features in June 2026

Last month, Microsoft rolled out a bunch of new Microsoft 365 Copilot features to users across its apps in June 2026. Among the highlights from last month’s feature drop was the general availability of Copilot Cowork. For the uninitiated, it’s Microsoft’s AI feature that can complete entire business tasks rather than simply answer prompts.

Improvements for Copilot Cowork and feature additions across apps

Last month, the company also supercharged Copilot Cowork with GPT-5.5 Thinking model selection, Anthropic’s new model support for visual work, browser automation, mobile support, push notifications, custom skills, new business plugins, branded PowerPoint template generation, image creation powered by ChatGPT Images 2.0, and usage-based billing controls.

The Copilot app also received several notable upgrades. Microsoft introduced deep citations that link directly to the relevant section inside documents. Next, the company introduced a new Regenerate button for quickly switching AI models or retrying responses, actionable Suggested Edits inside Copilot Pages, Power BI reasoning through Work IQ, Dataverse support in public preview, and expanded Notebook availability for Copilot Chat users. Not to forget, Notebook support for Outlook emails will begin rolling out in July.

Microsoft also added a few new Copilot features within Word. For example, Microsoft Word users can now switch between different AI models, generate images directly inside documents, continue previous Copilot conversations, and receive Catchup summaries for changed documents. That’s not all; Word users can also apply comment-based edits automatically, and access agentic editing capabilities on iPhone and iPad.

Microsoft PowerPoint also received one of its biggest Copilot upgrades yet. Microsoft added Brand Kit Picker for company-approved templates, reusable presentation skills, and the ability to build presentations directly from SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders. Meanwhile, Excel got reusable Skills, persistent personalization preferences, and workbook Rules sheets that let Copilot follow spreadsheet-specific instructions automatically.

Planning and collab features involving Copilot

Moving on to Outlook, users can now rewrite selected portions of an email instead of regenerating the entire draft, while classic Outlook is also getting easier Copilot settings management beginning in July.

Speaking of planning and collab, Microsoft also shipped the new Planner Agent, added additional Researcher model options, introduced organization prompts, and launched a Cost Management Dashboard for Copilot Credits. The company further expanded Organizational Messages to hybrid-joined devices, added new Vision controls for administrators, and strengthened Microsoft Purview governance for both Copilot and Cowork.

Last but not least, Microsoft rolled out new email restrictions for external content used inside Copilot responses, with broader availability arriving over the next few months. In case you want to learn more about features that Microsoft added last month its apps, click here for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Excel.